The Mekong Delta plans to grow this year’s winter – spring rice crop early since drought and saltwater intrusion are forecast to be severe in the dry season starting at the end of this year.
Category: Viet Nam
Gibbons hold on in last remaining Vietnam stronghold
Community-led forest patrols—focusing in particular on gibbons—are helping to ensure that illegal logging, hunting and agricultural encroachment are kept to a minimum.
Groundwater pumping could ‘devastate’ river systems
Some farming techniques showed promise in reducing groundwater use, such as parts of the Mekong Delta in southeast Asia, where coconut palms are replacing water-intense rice fields in several pilot projects.
ADB finances first large-scale floating solar PV in Vietnam
The $37 million loan agreement will support a 47.5 megawatt peak floating photovoltaic solar power facility on the man-made reservoir at an existing 175 MW hydropower plant.
Coming to terms with clean air disappearing into thin air
These days, heavy smog has forced millions of people in Hanoi and HCMC to never hit the streets without masks on their faces, even if they are cheap ones that will never protect them from dust.
Trafficked to extinction: Vietnam, Taiwan, China
Despite the scale of the pangolin trade, little is actually known about it, even among prosecutors and law enforcement officials in its key market: China
Greed makes the world go round
Vũ Hùng penned 50 years ago, “Nowadays, humans chop down forests and hunt wild animals to benefit their capital need. If it doesn’t stop, it’s going to be destructive for all of us.”